sodium VS Iris

Compare sodium vs Iris and see what are their differences.

sodium

Sodium - Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) Library for multiple languages (by SodiumFRP)

Iris

(WIP) A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs (by IrisShaders)
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sodium Iris
0 131
825 2,838
0.2% 1.9%
0.0 0.0
16 days ago 4 days ago
C# Java
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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sodium

Posts with mentions or reviews of sodium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning sodium yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Iris

Posts with mentions or reviews of Iris. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sodium and Iris you can also consider the following projects:

Starlight - Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

LambDynamicLights - A dynamic lights mod for Minecraft with Fabric.

sodium-fabric - A fork of Sodium adding Iris compatibility. EXPERIMENTAL AND UNSTABLE, DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THERE ARE RENDERING ISSUES, BUGS, AND CRASHES.

Indium - A JavaScript development environment for Emacs

sodium-extra-fabric - Features that shouldn't be in Sodium.

Indium - Sodium addon providing support for the Fabric Rendering API, based on Indigo

phosphor-fabric - A Fabric mod designed to dramatically improve the performance of Minecraft's lighting engine while fixing many bugs

canvas - Shader-Based Minecraft Renderer for Fabric

FarPlaneTwo - Level-of-Detail renderer in Minecraft. Allows for render distances of millions of blocks. (Cubic Chunks-compatible) (WIP)

Starlight - Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors [Moved to: https://github.com/PaperMC/Starlight]

lithium-fabric - A Fabric mod designed to improve the general performance of Minecraft without breaking things

OkZoomer - Adds a highly-configurable zoom key for Quilt. The zoom is yours!